[Eric] new user questions

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Sunday 17 November 2013, 14:35:32 Sebastian Elsner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am starting to use Eric 5 and have some questions about features I 
miss:
> 
> * Is there a way to mark occurences of the member under my cursor in
> some kind of mini-map or in the margins next to the line numbers?

No. At the moment only the frame markers around the occurrences are 
supported.

> * can I create custom templates or code skeletions like if I type
> "super" I can expand it to super(MyClass).__init__(parent)

Please check, if the built-in templates are what you have in mind 
(Templates Viewer).

> * themes: it would be very nice to be able to define themes via
> QPalettes. Defining via stylesheets is nice and lets you do more than
> palettes, but it is way more difficult to get a consistent look if you
> "just" want to create a dark UI. For example I prefer the plastique
> style, but if I apply a stylesheet to make the ui dark, the scrollbar
> look like windows xp.

eric uses the Qt style by default. However, that can be changed via the 
configuration dialog, Interface->Interface page. Here you may select a 
different Qt style and assign a custom style sheet file to used (Qt style 
sheet).

> * plugins: is there any documentation on what a plugin needs to
> implement or can implement to get a certain behaviour? (technical report
> does not give much information). I have the dark palette thing working,
> but I would like to put it into a plugin for sharing.

The eric archive contains a document describing the plug-in system and 
the development of plug-ins. eric itself and the online eric plug-in 
repository provide a bunch of plug-ins that can be used as examples. 
However, style sheets need not be wrapped in a plug-in because you can 
load them directly (see above answer).

Detlev-- 
*Detlev Offenbach*
detlev at die-offenbachs.de
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